Are both "his"'s the same? "His" - H? A? M? I should have said - yes"me" = you, Solitaire? Yes Is "he" related to you? Do you know him? No to both.Did this actually happen? This month? Yes to both. You may be on to something, Balin.

May we call him Matt? Sure If so, was Matt's life endangered by global warming? Saved by it? irr. The only significance of the title is that this hemisphere _is_ warm in August. Did this happen in North America? Yes South America? Africa? Europe? Asia? Australia/Oceania? Antarctica?

Did he get frostbite? Hypothermia? No to bothupstate New York? NYC? this Long Island? on Niagara Falls? was it ice that endangered his life?Yope, leaning to noish On 2nd thought, more like noish, leaning to yope.

after all, you didn't necessarily indicate you were alive when it happened, soli kitteh...could haz read about it =) You are beginning to catch on to how my sneaky mind works! But not in this case. I was alive.

Wind chill relevant? No Is the ice involved: of natural origin? Artificial? Had ice been present, itwould have been of natural origin. Both (such as icing on an airplane)?no Does it melt? Is it on a surface? yes to both On a body of water? In the air?no to bothhad ice been present previously? yes! had it melted? yes, but n.r.

or are we talking about hypothetical ice? yessish the danger of ice?Yes! OTRT antifreeze? ice in drinks? no to both of theese

Was there a risk that there would be ice somewhere? Which surprised you because it was august? Was his life saved because there was no ice? would his life be in danger if there was ice? Would he die if there was ice? High altitude relevant?

Was there a risk that there would be ice somewhere?no Which surprised you because it was august? Was his life saved because there was no ice?irr would his life be in danger if there was ice?irr Would he die if there was ice? {irr High altitude relevant? As in, on a mountain? No.

Was the danger related to his car? Someone else's car? yope to both - the vehicle he was driving. Any carno whatsoever? Had salt caused a windshield to become pitted and/or foggy? No. There was a problem, but I'm not sure what caused it.

RECAP: ********* A man was driving a vehicle in NYC in August - this August, but before the storms, which are not relevant. It is _not_ a passenger vehicle. Something happened to his vehicle which endangered his life, exact cause not known. It is related, indirectly, to ice, but there was no ice on the roads.

Was the truck transporting something? Relevant? Was it transporting what it was designed for? Is it designed to transport something related to ice? Driving on ice? Or fighting ice? Did the truck: break down? Crash? Run off the road? Hit something? Catch fire? Lose tyre(s)? Wheel(s)? Cargo? Something else?

Was the truck transporting something?Not known Relevant? yope Was it transporting what it was designed for? If it was transporting something, it would be what it is designed for Is it designed to transport something related to ice? yes Driving on ice? Or fighting ice? this Did the truck: break down? Crash? Run off the road? No, but OTRT Hit something? yes - explore Catch fire? Lose tyre(s)? Wheel(s)? Cargo? no or unknown to all these Something else? Don't really know, but I think we can assume brake failure.

was it a salt dispensing truck? YES!

I haven't forgotten it's August :oD For a few more hours, anyway. It looks like this might be solved before September, so keep up the good work!

so did the salt dispensing truck endanger someone's life and save it, too? the truck had brake failure...what else? *tries to take it all in*

********RECAP********** The driver of a salt-dispensing truck had his life endangered, probably because of btake failure. The truck hit something. (Explore?) But because he was driving a salt-dispensing truck, his life was saved - possibly because of the salt, possibly just because of the configuration of the truck. Some pretty broad hints there - explore!

our gritter lorries have spraying things at the back but I seem to remember that they have something sticking out at the sides as well - I was thinking these protrusions might have scraped against something or caught on something

did the top of the truck hit something? did it go into a tunnel? hit a road sign?

our gritter lorries have spraying things at the back but I seem to remember that they have something sticking out at the sides as well - I was thinking these protrusions might have scraped against something or caught on something Well, the US trucks apparently have a hopper thing on the back to distrubute the salt, and this tilted and caught on something, and saved him.

did the top of the truck hit something? Not the top - the entire truck. did it go into a tunnel? No - explore. hit a road sign? no; it was not on a road.

Just a little bit more and you will have it! Remember, this is a _lateral puzzle_ with a typical lateral puzzle twist in the solution.

did the truck smash into something and the impact caused the hopper to lift, then that caught on something and prevented the truck going even further into the thing? I quite like the idea of an aeroplane, then the hopper might have caught on a wing.

did this happen outdoors? if not on a road, on some sort of paving or tarmac?

did the truck smash into something and the impact caused the hopper to lift, then that caught on something and prevented the truck going even further into the thing? That's more or less what happened. I quite like the idea of an aeroplane, then the hopper might have caught on a wing. I like the idea too, but it was much simpler than that.

did this happen outdoors? No! or noish. if not on a road, on some sort of paving or tarmac? irrWas the truck distributing the salt at the time? Was it in a field? No to both.

********SPOILER*********** While drwoning my sorrows and trying to cool off with an iced coffee at the local Starbucks, I saw a headline in the NY Times that attracted my attention, so I had to spring the $2 for a copy. This was from Augut 18.

A salt-spreading truck had driven through the wall of the 2nd-story garage, where it had been driven for maintenance. It was 3/4 of the way out, and only the fact that the hopper part tilted and caught prevented it from plunging, with its driver, to the sidewalk.

I've been in NYC, but only in the summertime, and I'd just as soon leave it that way.